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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Local Interest"”.
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The Transformation of Place: Historic Theme Development in Small Town Commercial Districts
… in an effort to attract tourists as well as local residents. While much scholarly attention has been paid to the redevelopment of metropolitan downtowns, few researchers have focused on the efforts of smaller communities to revive their main streets. This study investigates the process of …
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Conservation and building practice in a world heritage city : the case of Sana'a, Yemen
… conservation efforts, which have stimulated local interest and contributed to the formation of a local discourse. Because conservation followed so quickly on the heels of modernization, Sana'a provides an opportunity to study the interplay of these two global ideologies in the context of a …
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Active object recognition for 2D and 3D applications
… the position of the camera or the object of interest to obtain more useful information. This approach can improve the computational efficiency of the recognition task by only processing viewpoints selected based on the amount of relevant information they contain. Active object recognition …
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Revisiting Aldo Leopold's "Perfect" Land Health: Conservation and Development in Mexico's Rio Gavilan
… current land health status is moderate, and local interest exists in restoring land health. Many fish and wildlife populations are reduced, temporarily stabilized, but still at risk. Soil and riverbed erosion, service sector economics, and (at some ridge-top sites) forest density are the land …
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Tongue -Tied: Sociocultural Change, Language, and Language Ideology Among the Oglala Lakota (Pine Ridge Sioux)
… to subsequent generations despite significant local interest in doing so, even in communities that still had many adult Native language speakers. This study addresses this phenomenon by investigating how it came to be among the Oglala Lakota on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and what it …
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Agenda-Building in Local Land-Use Issues: Blacksburg Versus the Big Box
… be included in a new retail development project. Local interest groups quickly formed, establishing different perspectives concerning the issue, while a Blacksburg Town Council member introduced an ordinance that would give the town the power to halt plans for the store. This measure became the …
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Public environmental information systems: challenges and perspectives
… users of environmental information (those with interest in environmental issues and with access to the technology), the thesis contains two empirical studies – a web-based survey of requirements and needs from a public environmental information system for London, and a public participation …
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Factors Associated with Success of Resource Development Programs at California Community Colleges
… means of generating additional funds as well as local interest and support for the community college.
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The Quality of Corporate Annual Reports: Evidence from Libya
… of business. These have generated much local interest in corporate reporting and the need to assess corporate reporting disclosure. This study attempts to assess the quality of corporate annual reports published by Libyan companies. In other words, to what extent do financial reports …
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Component-based Intelligent Control Architecture for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
… system such as communication load and local interest conflicts are also studied. The experimental results reveal the advantage of new agent-based decision making system over the existing methodologies. The proposed control system provides the reconfigurability that lacks in current …
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Modeling watershed management with an ecological objective - a multi-agent system based approach
… mathematical problem. By introducing the local interest factor (βi), this algorithm allows agents to search for the solution in the infeasible solution space when system-wide constraints are violated. The use of βi values enables the analysis of a water resource management problem to …